GPMC looks for old domain name after rename

Question

Greetings!
I've renamed my domain after reading white papers on the subject. The process went well except when I try to open the Group Policy Management Console it says the domain doesn't exist. It offers to let me select a different domain controller but it's looking
in the old domain. I can't change anything in the dialog to point it to the new domain name. I've tried from my Win 7 work station and from the domain controller with the PDC role. I moved that role to a different DC and get the same results. The domain is
at Server 2008 functionality level but all DCs are Server 2012R2. I did run gpfixup for both the DNS name and NB name. The only errors it produces relate to old software group policies that no longer are used and the file path has been removed. I need to get
this fixed. I'd even be willing to start fresh with just default polices but blowing up the domain and starting over isn't an option. Thanks for any suggestions offered.

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply, Frank. Yes, all the steps were followed. The gpfixup was reporting errors and stating they were not fatal, but they were because the gp fix never completed. Evidently it renames sysvol and that never happened.
It turns out the policies that gpfixup was dying on were long-abandoned policies that used DFS shares. I used ASDI Edit to find them and delete them. Then I was able to run gpfixup, which now completed successfully. Once that was done the GPMC would properly
run and access the group policies.
The actual domain rename went quite well and most users didn't notice this problem other than the workstations reverting to installing updates themselves instead of contacting my WSUS server.
Mark Warbeck